Blackberry?

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Yeah we support them. running the blackbery server falls under my job. Usually no problem except the odd demanding director scenario and o2 being a pain. I have one myself. Soon found out how to get it to automatically switch off outside of work hours

Great thing is all the users have unlimited international data packages which is great for google maps (for me at least)

 

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Its easy to see why the Blackberry has become so successful. They work well, the software on the handset and server is stable and easy to use. When we rolled out the pilot 12 months ago we issued a limited number of handsets, the managers were pulling rank on one another and all sorts to be one of the first users...

 

With Windows Mobile, you don't need a separate server, it integrates perfectly with a Microsoft-based network (including Exchange), and you're not tied to Blackberry as a provider. Know how unhappy people were when Blackberry went down a few weeks/months back?

 

The problem with the Windows Mobile version is that it works with OWA (not a problem within itself). Where the BES pushes; the Win version requires the unit to login via OWA and pull. The issue (at least where I work) is many enterprises don't allow direct OWA access. For example, here you'll need to establish a SSL VPN connection just to get into OWA.

There might be other ways to deploy Windows Mobile with Outlook; this is the only way I've seen it done. Of course last time I saw it was almost 2.5 years ago, so things may have changed.

 

Umm... directly to Exchange?